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C115: The SaintKael descended from the sky in a slow, controlled drop, his boots touching the ground with a dull thud that nonetheless sent a ripple of shock through everyone present, because nobody had expected someone to arrive from above so suddenly, let alone someone whose presence carried an unmistakable weight that pressed against the senses. Several people flinched hard enough to stumble back, and only then did Kael properly notice that a portion of the gathered awakened were wearing crude gas masks strapped tightly over their faces, the filters wheezing faintly as they worked to keep polluted air from destroying their lungs.At first, Kael did not understand why such precautions were necessary, because from his perspective the air, while unpleasant, was nowhere near lethal enough to warrant this level of fear, especially not for awakened individuals who should have possessed bodies far stronger than ordinary humans. That confusion surfaced instinctively, a
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C114: Airborne“Fafnir, tell me this is the right place,” Kael muttered as his eyes dragged themselves across the broken street ahead of him, because the scenery felt so violently wrong that his mind refused to accept it as Vivum, even though every instinct insisted it was real.This is Vivum, and before you spiral into something stupid, this is the correct timeline. Time flows identically in both worlds.“Fuck,” Kael breathed, then immediately followed it with, “what the fuck happened here,” as he stepped forward onto the cracked stone road, noticing that Fafnir had gone quiet behind him, standing unnaturally still like a statue that had forgotten its role in the world.The smell hit him first, burned metal mixed with blood and scorched stone, and then his eyes finally caught up, registering the bodies scattered across the street in chaotic disarray. Some corpses were charred black as if fire had kissed them too long, while others were pierced so
C113: Ashes on the Way Home
C113: Ashes on the Way Home“ Astraea… what exactly are you doing down there?”Kael’s voice broke the quiet as he stepped closer, his shadow stretching across the uneven ground, and only then did he realize she was sitting cross legged on the stone floor, fingers stained with dust as she carefully traced lines and symbols into the surface with a level of focus she rarely showed so openly.At first glance, it looked like messy scribbling, the kind a bored child might draw while half asleep, because Astraea had never been particularly talented when it came to anything resembling art, yet the longer Kael stared, the more he felt a strange discomfort settle in his chest, because mixed within those crooked lines was a short string of text that tugged at his memory in an unsettling way.It was not a language he recognized from the temple, nor any script he had learned since arriving in this world, and yet it felt familiar, like a distorted reflection of something sacred, similar but undenia
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Chapter 112: Higher Than You“So then,” The System asked with that infuriatingly calm voice that always sounded like it was smiling without a mouth, “how does it feel to fight someone ranked a full tier above you, knowing they technically should have wiped you across the floor like a decorative stain.”Kael lay sprawled across the final stone step of the arena, arms spread, back pressed against freezing rock, lungs dragging in air that burned on the way down and sliced on the way back up, and after a moment of genuinely considering a dramatic answer he decided honesty would be more annoying.“Honestly,” Kael replied while staring at the dim ceiling that still hummed with leftover mana pressure, “it was not nearly as miserable as I expected, which annoys me more than if it had actually been hard.”That answer was not arrogance, and Kael knew it, because if the matchup had been even slightly different, if the enemy had relied on anything other than
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Chapter 111: Deafened SteelKael dragged air into his chest like it owed him money, the breath scraping through his ribs as pain flared and then dulled under the System’s ever hovering interference, because the man in front of him was, by every possible metric, an absolute cunt to fight.Light condensed around Kael’s palm as he twisted his wrist and released Piercing Light, the spell screaming forward as a compressed lance of brilliance that bent the air and burned white lines across his vision, yet the result was the same as every attempt before it, deflected, redirected, or somehow bullied off course by a pair of daggers that should not have been capable of interacting with refined mana constructs at that level.Kael did not know how the man did it, because Piercing Light was designed to be fast, narrow, and difficult to perceive until impact, yet the bastard kept swatting it aside as if Kael were throwing glowing stones rather than weaponized intent.The
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C110 Training RoomKael brushed the stubborn dust from his clothing, each particle scattering like tiny stars against the dim light, as he finally reached the last pillar, having painstakingly collected the previous two scattered along the arduous path that tested not just his skill but his endurance, resolve, and patience in equal measure.Progress glimmered before him, tangible and overwhelming, 82 percent toward the next tier, a number that throbbed like a pulse in his chest, a massive surge that promised both triumph and the weight of what awaited him beyond the threshold of completion.Added to this, his mana purity had breached the sacred barrier of one hundred percent, climbing to a staggering 103 percent, a manifestation of energy refined and amplified, coiling within him like a living thing, eager for release, and yet the anticipation was not without unease, for he knew that power carried responsibility and risk in equal measure.
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